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GCP – BigQuery now offers industry-leading uptime SLA of 99.99%
More than ever, businesses are making real-time, data-driven decisions based on information stored in their data warehouses. Today’s data warehouse requires continuous uptime as analytics demands grow and organizations require rapid access to mission-critical insights. Business disruptions from unplanned downtime can severely impact company sales, reputation, and customer relations. Our customers expect their data warehouses […]
GCP – Understanding IP address management in GKE
When it comes to giving out IP addresses, Kubernetes has a supply and demand problem. On the supply side, organizations are running low on IP addresses, because of large on-premises networks and multi-cloud deployments that use RFC1918 addresses (address allocation for private internets). On the demand side, Kubernetes resources such as pods, nodes and services […]
GCP – How Parcel Shuttle makes last-mile delivery more eco-friendly and drivers happier
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Simon Seeger, founder of Parcel Shuttle, a GLS Group backed Berlin parcel delivery solution that’s rethinking the sector with a “smart microgrid” system which enables it to reduce the carbon footprint of delivery runs while offering an opportunity to provide a flexible income for drivers. When we launched Parcel […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-based permission policies
Amazon ElastiCache now allows you to assign permissions to specific resources in IAM policies. You can now assign AWS account root user or an IAM user permissions to specific ElastiCache resource or resources. Prior to this release, Amazon ElastiCache only supported identity-based policies. Identity-based policies control access to all ElastiCache resources and can’t distinguish between […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
On Aug 12th, 2020, AWS IoT Device Defender launched Audit Finding Suppression. The new capability allows you to choose which audit findings you want to see and turn off non-compliant findings for specific resources – this can be either because you are working towards fixing related issues or because the resources are known to be […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito User Pools now supports customization of token expiration
Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables customers to choose how long their access and refresh tokens should be valid. Access tokens can be configured to expire in as little as five minutes or as long as 24 hours. Refresh tokens can be configured to expire in as little as one hour or as long as […]
AWS – Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt) regions
Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, today announced new Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage options that make it even more cost effective to power any compute workload with a fast, shared file system. When creating shared file systems for compute workloads, you can now choose between existing SSD storage options […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G4 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs are Now Available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon EC2 G4 instances which provide industry’s most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 22. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows
Starting today, you can stop and restart your workflows in AWS Glue giving you more control over the orchestration of your Glue ETL workloads. Additionally, you can specify the maximum number of concurrent runs for your Glue workflow. Read More for the details.